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Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text messages intended to mobilize voters boosted participation but also decreased trust in electoral institutions after the election, a...
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There were substantial fluctuations in the numbers of American overseas travelers, especially before World War II. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the...
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We quantify the causal impact of human mobility restrictions, particularly the lockdown of the city of Wuhan on January …-in-differences (DID) estimations to disentangle the lockdown effect on human mobility reductions from other confounding effects including …
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Stock prices and workplace mobility trace out striking clockwise paths in daily data from mid-February to late May 2020 …. Global stock prices fell 30 percent from 17 February to 12 March, before mobility declined. Over the next 11 days, stocks … fell another 10 percentage points as mobility dropped 40 percent. From 23 March to 9 April, stocks recovered half their …
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of the Tiebout hypothesis using historical variation in mobility costs. Our extension of the Tiebout model to incorporate … such costs yields the following comparative statics: as mobility costs fall, the heterogeneity across communities of … mobility costs have fallen over time, a natural test of the Tiebout hypothesis is to take these predictions to the data here …
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This paper presents a multi-district model that can be calibrated to data reflecting housing market conditions, public school finance mechanisms and private school markets. Simulations are undertaken to investigate the impact of private school vouchers. Households that differ in both their...
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Recent years have seen an unprecedented growth and geographic dispersion in international student mobility. In this … mobility - the human capital model and the migration model - across traditional and emerging destinations. Our findings suggest …
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This study quantifies the effect of state reopening policies on daily mobility, travel, and mixing behavior during the … different states. We quantify the increase in mobility patterns during the reopening phase by a broad range of cell …-device-based metrics. Soon (four days) after reopening, we observe a 6% to 8% mobility increase. In addition, we find that temperature and …
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This short note constructs Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility … restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Mobility Zones are disjoint sets of counties where a given level of individual … mobility directly or indirectly connects all counties within each set. I compute Mobility Zones for the United States and each …
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New York City's multipronged subway system was a major disseminator - if not the principal transmission vehicle - of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020. The near shutoff of subway ridership in...
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